Winn Tucson

Guests - Lea Marquez Peterson, Cheryl Caswell, Derek Weech, Eileen Wilson

It’s Election Day in Arizona! Kathleen Winn's phone started before dawn. By the time the microphones opened on primary morning in Pima County, the reports were already stacking up — the most urgent one out of Marana, where voters were being handed ballots printed on ordinary copy paper rather than the heavier stoc...

Guests - Betsy Smith, Greg Wrightstone, Rodney Glassman, Joel Strabala

The day before Arizona's primary opened with news from 2,400 miles away: an explosion at the Manhattan federal building housing ICE, the FBI, and other federal offices. Kathleen Winn scrapped her planned opening and called the National Police Association's Betsy Brantner Smith, who traced a line from that attack to the rhetoric ...

Guests - Seth Keshel, Jack Dona

Four days out from Arizona's primary, with the president's overnight address on election security still echoing, Kathleen Winn built her Friday broadcast around the one issue she and both of her guests treat as the foundation of everything else: whether the vote can be trusted. First a reminder for listeners caught off guard — last year's five mail-in elections...

Guests - Dennis Kneal, Steve Bonta, Alex Kolodin, Kristen Pruett

A single number framed the entire Thursday broadcast: less than half of Americans now say they believe in capitalism. On a rainy morning in Tucson, days before Arizona's primary, host Kathleen Winn built her show around that statistic and its consequences — a country where a rising generation is drawn to socialism without unders...

Guests - Ava Chen, Terri Jo Neff

Ava Chen opens China Watch Wednesday with a four-pronged breakdown of how the CCP is targeting American elections — from ideological capture through private equity proxies, to voting machine supply chain contamination traced through Huawei-controlled Serbia, to a 2020 NFSC intelligence disclosure alleging a CCP plot to kill President Trump using COVID-19 — and closes with breaking intel ...

Guests - Stephen Mundt, Joel Strabala, Rodney Glassman

Retired Brigadier General Steve Mundt opens the week with a wide-ranging geopolitical briefing — honoring Lindsey Graham's legacy while assessing the diplomatic void his death leaves in Ukraine negotiations, breaking down Iran's last-stand calculus in the Strait of Hormuz, and raising an under-discussed Taiwan warning that has nothing to do with a military invasion. Joel ...

Guests - Chad Connelly, Rick Shafton, Tara Oster, Stephen Moore

Chad Connelly opens the week with a firsthand portrait of Lindsey Graham — the kid who grew up above a pool hall, raised his orphaned sister while serving in the Air Force, built the relationships behind the Abraham Accords, and came home from his final meeting with Zelensky confident a path forward existed — before anyone ...

Guest Host - Dave Smith; Guests - Kathleen Winn, Betsy Smith, Jeff Rhodes

Kathleen Winn calls in from Al's birthday celebration to announce a federal court victory — Judge Liburdi has enjoined Fontes and Kris Mayes from enforcing the provision that let poll workers remove uniformed officers and military personnel from voting centers, capping a legal fight that included a Tucson cop literally turned away at the polls the day a...

Guests - Jon Riches, Joel Strabala, James Rogers, Michael Letts

Graham Plattner's exit from the Maine Senate race opens the week — and Winn argues he didn't just drop out, he poisoned the well for whoever Democrats scramble to replace him with by July 27th. Jon Riches of the Goldwater Institute explains how Kris Mayes's two-year campaign to bury Arizona's ESA program in paperwork — requiring curriculum documentation for...

Guests - Andy Biggs, Ava Chen, Alex Kolodin, Laurie Moore

Andy Biggs calls in with a strong poll and a simple message: don't celebrate before you cross the finish line — there are two weeks left and Katie Hobbs has nothing to run on except a record she's actively trying to hide. Ava Chen delivers a three-part China Watch update: why Miles Guo is refusing a pardon and fighting for full exoneration in the Second Circuit, how Hu...

Guests - Anthony Dunham, Jeff Rhodes, Gilda Carle, Elijah Norton, Joel Strabala, Rick Shafton

Anthony Dunham brings a retired judge on the record to call his opponent's child abuse mailers categorically false — and names the reporter who was told the same thing months before the hit piece went out. Jeff Rhodes breaks down the write-in mechanics for Supervisor District 5 and explains why getting one more Republican on the boar...

Guests - Joel Strabala, Betsy Smith, Charles Heller, Dave Smith. Gary Benoit

Joel Strabala opens the week with a ballot emergency alert — thousands of voters purged from rolls, Green Valley stripped of 10 polling places while the mobile voting center skips right past it, and a July 10th deadline to fix registration problems before it's too late. Betsy Brantner Smith returns from vacation to cover the Charlie Kirk murder preli...

Guests - Rodney Glassman, Joel Strabala, Edward Bartlett

Rodney Glassman makes his closing argument for the AG primary — centering on prosecutorial experience, a day-one plan to withdraw Arizona from all 42 of Kris Mayes's lawsuits, and a warning that a sloppily written legislative resolution may accidentally kill the election-integrity measure Republicans worked years to get on the November ballot. Joel Strabala walks throug...

Guests - Ava Chen, Thomas Horne, Juan Ciscomani

Ava Chen delivers a gripping firsthand account from inside the Southern District of New York courtroom where Miles Guo was sentenced to 30 years — describing a man who arrived bleeding, dehydrated, and barely standing after a morning medical crisis at MDC, then rose to correct the prosecution's record on the stand and walked out still encouraging his movement not to give up. Tom...

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Dan Butierez, Eileen Wilson, Michael Letts, Jeff Rhodes

Alex Kolodin delivers his closing argument to Arizona voters as ballots hit mailboxes — and breaks down exactly why Fontes's new directive barring armed officers from the polls is both legally baseless and deliberately targeted. Daniel Gutierrez explains why his name isn't on anyone's primary ballot yet, and why CD7 is nothing like New York City. E...

Guests - Jay Foard, Elijah Norton, Lisa Von Geldern

Jay Foard makes the case that the youth reading crisis is a culture war problem, not just an education one — and pitches his novel Rustling of the Sycamore as a deliberate antidote built around faith, family, and critical thinking. Elijah Norton fires back at attack ads from his treasurer primary opponent by leaning entirely on his own financial track record, including ...

Guests - Art Del Cueto, Alex Kolodin, Warren Peterson

Art Del Cueto makes the case for Andy Biggs ahead of the governor's primary while warning that intra-party grudges and "RINO"-shaming are the real threat to Republican unity. Alex Kolodin breaks down the Save Act, a competing Democrat-backed ballot measure designed to confuse voters, and his unbroken win streak against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. And Warren Peterson spends...